Garment hanger



March 24, B CAI-[N 5 L GARMENT HANGER Filed Sept. 18, 1934 |NVENTORSBIZ-den 14.3. am 11 E ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 24, 15) 36 I PATENT FE-ICEGARMENT HANGER Bernard Calm and Albert B. Cahn, San Diego, Calif.

Application September 18, 1934, Serial No. 744,547

1 Claim.

This invention relates to hangers and is directed particularly to ahanger of that character adapted to have a mans suit supported thereon.

Laundries, cleaners and dyers must have hangers upon which to supportsuits after cleaning and/or pressing and upon which the garments aredelivered to the customer-the customer of course being allowed to retainthe hanger for his own use.

This custom entails a great expense to the laundries, cleaners and dyersand in the trade a need is felt for a hanger which may be purchased atless cost than the customary wooden hanger. Any

such hanger would have to be as. strong as the wooden hanger and alsohave a cross bar of sumcient width to prevent unnecessary creasing ofthe legs of the trousers supported thereacross.

Suit hangers manufactured from relatively heavy wire have in the pastbeen experimented with, but due to the narrow cross bar and the tendencyof the wire cross bar to bend, these hangers have not been accepted bythe trade.

It is therefore our principal object to provide a suit hangermanufactured from a relatively heavy cardboard, or as it is generallytermed, fiber board-a very cheap material-and to provide a relativelywide trouser supporting cross bar on the hanger in order to preventundue creasing across the legs of the trousers when supported by saidcross bar and which would otherwise be had due to the initial thinnessof the material from which the hanger is manufactured, as compared withwood.

A further object of our invention is to provide a fiber board hangerwhich will be manufactured from a single sheet of fiber board and as aresult be capable of being sold to the trade at a cost below that of thepresent wooden hanger.

We also provide our improved hanger with the usual swivel hookconstruction of heavy wire mounted in connection with the hanger body bymeans of a. novel clamp.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensivedevice and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposefor which it is designed.

These objects we accomplish by means of such structure and relativearrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the followingspecification and claim.

In the drawing similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the several views:

Figure l is a side elevation of the body of the hanger as it appearswhen initially stamped from a fiber board blank.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the complete hanger.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the of the hanger.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 5 44 of Figure 2.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawing, the numeral l denotes generally thebody of the hanger, saidbody comprising downwardly diverging and curved hanger arms 2 ofconventional contour and a cross bar 3 extending between and connectingthe divergent ends of the arms 2. The cross bar along its upper edge hasformed integral therewith an-extension in the form of a flapor strip 4.

The entire body of the hanger I, including the flap 4, is of coursestamped from a single sheet of fiber board. When removed from the diethe hanger body I appears as shown in Figure 1.

In order that the cross bar 3 have suflicient strength against bucklingwhen a. pair of trousers is supported thereon, and in order that thetrouser engaging edge of the cross bar be sufficiently wide to preventcreases across the trouser legs, we construct the cross bar 3 asfollows: I

The flap 4 initially upstanding from the cross bar 3 when removed fromthe die is folded down against one face of said cross bar 3, asillustrated in Figure 4, and then secured in place as by a suitablestaple 5. The fold line is not creased and remains substantiallycircular and relatively wide, as shown in section in Figure 4.

' The body of the hanger l is rotatably suspended from the usual wirehook I by means of a metal plate 8 having a vertical and deepsemi-circular groove 9 formed therein to receive the shank ID of thehook I. The metal plate 8 is secured in place over the shank III of thehook and against one face of the hanger body at the apex thereof 40 bymeans of bendable fingers H integral with the plate and bent over fromthe top and bottom of the plate to contact the other face of the hangerbody. Our preferred construction is to provide opposite side two upperand two lower spaced fingers as shown.

An enlarged head 12 on the lower end of the shank prevents the hangerbody and securing plate from falling or sliding away from the hook I.

In use the trousers are folded with legs together as usual and placedthrough the opening in the hanger and supported over the cross bar 3.Due to the novel manner in which we construct this cross bar it issufiiciently strong to support the weight of the trousers and due to therelatively wide top edge of the said cross bar the trousers are notcreased across the legs at the front. The coat and vest are alsosupported on the hanger as on any common wooden hanger.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that we haveproduced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferredconstruction of the device, still in practice such deviations from suchdetail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit ofthe invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and useful anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a garment hanger, a shanked hook to support the same, and means tosecure the shank of the hook against one side of the hanger infrictional and rotatable engagement; said last named means comprising ametal plate formed with a vertical groove of substantially semi-circularcross section encasing the shank oi the hook, and bendable fingersformed integral with the plate and bent over the edges of the hanger.

BERNARD CAHN. ALBERT B. CAHN.

